It's education pink slip day, but EdSource's Susan Frey and John Fensterwald report that because of the passage of Prop. 30, a lot fewer layoff notices will hit teacher mailboxes this March 15 than in previous years.

LOCKYERS:Bill, Nadia Lockyer trying to reconcile - "Bill Lockyer, one of the state's most powerful Democrats, and his wife of 10 years 'have agreed to try and reconcile,' said his spokesman Tom Dresslar. 'They're focused on trying to work things out.'" [Henry K. Lee @ SFChron]

LANDING ZONE:Former Rep. Berman heads to K Street - "Former Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) is headed to K Street, where he is joining Covington & Burling as part of the firm’s global public policy and government affairs practice. . . The news comes a week after the firm announced it had landed former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), the former No. 2 Republican in the Senate." [Jonathan Easley @ The Hill]

REACHING VOTERS:The Shame of the Cities, 2013 - "Republicans are the natural heirs to the good government reform movements that turned many of those cities around. But we aren’t there, physically or mentally. We are allowing a virtual one party system to exist in our vital urban regions by default." [Duane Dichiara @ FlashReport]

Yes, the meme is already old, but if you haven't done the following, you're missing out on a great "easter egg."

Use Google Chrome

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Type "Do the Harlem Shake" in the search field, press enter, and watch.

THE CONGRESSIONAL LANDSCAPE . . . CONTINUED

I've added some names to the congressional landscape list from yesterday, which supplements Kyle Trygstad's "farm team" list (now incorporated below). Again, we have no idea when these congressional seats will open up, and most of the folks below are politely waiting for the incumbents (of their own party) to decide on their own terms. That said, despite last year's significant turnover, the delegation is aging, and there will be several open slots in the next few cycles.

YESTERDAY'S QUESTION: Who are the youngest and oldest members of California's congressional delegation, the latter of whom is the oldest freshman in the House?

YESTERDAY'S ANSWER: Eric Swalwell (32) and Alan Lowenthal (72). Sorry for leaving out the word "freshman," which of course was an important caveat.

As Tony Quinn reminds me, the oldest member of the House is Ralph Hall (R-TX), who is the oldest person to ever be elected to, and serve in, the House. Hall was a Democrat while he served from 1980-2003, and then seeing the winds of change in his district (and Texans' attitude towards Democrats), switched to the Republican Party in 2004.

TODAY'S QUESTION: How many California counties were there at the state's admission to the union?

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Dueling budgets and three days of political schmoozing by President Obama left Congress on Thursday in broad agreement on at least one idea: The tax code is awful and should be overhauled. But actually fixing it faces long odds given deep divisions between the two parties on the role of taxes in the economy.

Noting that leading Silicon Valley firms including Google, eBay and Yahoo have been founded by immigrant entrepreneurs, dozens of the regionâs top CEOs and tech leaders Thursday called on President Obama and Congress to enact immigration reform for high-skilled workers â a move they say would âkeep America in a position of global leadershipâ in tech innovation.

California Fair Political Practices Commission chairwoman Ann Ravel spoke to The Bee's editorial board Thursday about how she plans to use the remainder of her tenure tracking money in California politics.

The lengthy plan to reverse decades of decline in the Delta while also serving the water needs of millions includes much more than just 45 mile long proposed underground tunnels from Clarksburg to south of Discovery Bay... and yet those tunnels overshadow the entire discussion.

In a public letter today to the City of Sacramento, two local attorneys are calling into question the validity of public funding for a downtown arena project, and warn the city they may take any City Council funding action to a public vote via referendum.

Furloughed California state workers have taken less paid time off than usual, prompting the state to pay exiting employees a record amount last year to cash out accrued leave, according to a new report.

Project would construct two massive tunnels 35 miles long around the Delta to ease water deliveries to farms and cities. Critics say conservation, recycled water and other solutions are cheaper and vow a long battle

As Comrade Lochhead explained, Sen. Dianne Feinsteinâs pointed exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz over the new assault weapons ban she is proposing is buzzing across the Interwebs. On Thursday, after the incident, she told CNN that âI just felt patronizedâ by Cruzâs comments.

Even as it faces budget cuts and forced employee furloughs, the Pentagon is spending nearly a $1 billion a year on a program that sends unemployment checks to former troops who left the military voluntarily.

California paid more than a quarter-billion dollars to cash out state employee leave last year, according to a new state report, in part because furloughed state workers haven't been taking as much paid time off.

In his first Northern California trip since the 2012 election, President Barack Obama will return to Northern California on April 3-4, the White House has now confirmed.
The President will travel to northern California for fundraising events for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee, according to a White House official.